The IT management specialist SolarWinds is changing hands: the company is being acquired by the private equity firm Turn/River Capital for around 4.4 billion US dollars. Shareholders will receive 18.50 dollars per share in cash.

The US startup Lonestar Data Holdings is getting serious about its plans to install the first physical data center on the surface of the moon. The company announced on Tuesday that the fully assembled data center will be launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the end

Microsoft has become a new member of CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers of Europe) – the very association that recently took legal action against the company’s licensing practices. However, the decision to admit the 39th member was not well received everywhere.

CrowdStrike warns of a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting potential applicants. The attackers are disguising an XMRig cryptominer as a supposed CRM application for the application process.

Apple is opening up its Apple TV+ streaming service for a free weekend for the first time. From January 3 to 5, interested parties can access the entire media library without a subscription, as the company announced on Monday.

The French IT services group Atos may be facing a serious security situation. The ransomware group Space Bears claims to have gained access to one of the company’s databases. Atos immediately launched an investigation.

The American healthcare provider Ascension has confirmed that sensitive data of around 5.6 million people was compromised in a ransomware incident in May 2024. The information affected includes both patient and employee data.

US authorities and companies continue to use security software from the Russian manufacturer Kaspersky even after the ban came into force. A current analysis shows remarkable trends in global use.

NVIDIA is expanding its Jetson family with a particularly cost-effective model for AI applications. The new Jetson Orin Nano Super, priced at 249 US dollars, is designed to significantly lower the entry barrier for developers and smaller companies.

Google caused a stir with the recent presentation of its latest quantum computer chip “Willow”. The impressive performance of the chip was less surprising than a hidden message in the blog entry accompanying the announcement: The computing power could be explained by the existence of parallel universes.

BlackBerry is selling its cybersecurity division Cylance. The purchase price of 160 million US dollars is significantly lower than the 1.4 billion dollars that the former smartphone pioneer paid for the company in 2018. The buyer is the US cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf.

While European companies operate under strict data protection guidelines such as GDPR, and soon NIS 2, a recent analysis reveals serious security gaps in the handling of access data. The Business Digital Index reveals worrying cybersecurity practices.